Monday, January 06, 2003

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The Bush administration isn't planning to account for the land, mineral and other trust assets owned by more than 500,000 American Indians, according to the sworn testimony of a senior trust official....

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Tribal and Indian leaders voiced outrage last week upon learning that former assistant secretary Ross Swimmer has been nominated to oversee the trust fund accounts that he once tried to transfer to a private bank....

"[A]s many times as we are told how poor, disease-ridden and in need of rehabilitation we are, there are just as many that remind us there is a world beyond what outsiders see and read about in the newspapers....

Whoever replaces Neal McCaleb as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs will also be "chewed up and spit out" unless given the freedom to reform the troubled agency, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....